Witch Hazel Bark (hamamelis virginiana) Distilled Aromatic Water

£6.00 – £25.00

Witch Hazel aromatic water – another essential for your human & animal first aid kit – ideal for washing wounds, soothing skin rashes (inc eczema) and is antiseptic, anti-inflammatory & cicatrisant.

Difference between Aromatic Water and hydrosol, floral water etc?

Aromatic Water is specifically distilled, whereas the other waters are the leftovers from essential oil distillation or even just essential oil added to water.

Aromatic waters are highly therapeutic distillates which contain the lighter essence of an aromatic plant.

Description

Witch Hazel Bark (hamamelis virginiana) Distilled AW

Witch hazel’s medicinal qualities were well known to native North American people, who used poultices of the decocted herb externally to treat tumours and inflammations, and took the plant internally for haemorrhages. Witch hazel’s fame as a medicinal herb was spread to Europe by the European settlers during the 18th Century. Because hazel was used in divining rods in Britain, it became known as ‘witch’ hazel in the New World.

Probably most well-known as a facial wash for humans, it has many other uses – as an anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, cicatrisant (helps healing by formation of scar tissue), & antiseptic.

A really useful water to have in both the human and animal first aid kit & not to be confused with the alcohol-based witch hazel commercially available in chemists etc. This is a far superior product – once you’ve tried this, you’ll never go back!

A very useful wound wash, soothing for all types of skin complaints, particularly eczema and wonderfully effective for healing broken capillaries & minimising bruising.